Anxiety and Ambition
Zeitgeist leading up to the American Revolution.
Patrick Henry
Gave the famous "1775 Speech to the Virginia Convention"
Thomas Jefferson
Primary architect of the "Declaration of Independence"
Thomas Paine
Author of "Common Sense"
“We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”
Benjamin Franklin
“There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head!”
John Hancock
“These are the times that try men's souls.”
Thomas Paine